CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:06 am**

I buy magna for my anime collection. I have over 50 anime magna books. I read these things to follow things. I have spent over 300 dollards on newtype and shonen jump and magna alone. Oh yeah there is one more thing. Over at ebay they have this special dragonball z pack. The pack contains all the dbz, dbgt, dbz/ gt movies and a rare movie not in america. It is 54 dollars. Well that is it.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:32 am**

I buy it for pure entertainment. Need something to read when I'm bored.

I also buy it to share with other people. Yay.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:26 pm**

I buy it to [hopefully] help me draw better.
I also just love collecting things.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:06 pm**

In all honesty, I don't. Most of time I read it:
1) On the internet when that is legal
2) In stores
3) At friends'

I guess that answers the question already...

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:15 pm**

I've just started buying the occasional manga as something to read on my obnoxiously short lunch break. After eating, i have about fifteen minutes to sit in my car and relax. A manga chapter is about the perfect size for that fifteen minutes.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:09 pm**

I buy it because I want to support the US manga industry, and because I love to read it!!!

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:39 pm**

To support the artists, to support the industy and to have the art on hand to reference when I'm drawing difficult things.

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:40 pm**

Because I like comic books (yes they are comic books- If I say that to a friend of mine, he gets offended. Heh). (If it interests me I'll read it.)

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:48 pm**

I buy manga to read ( in Rurouni Kenshin's case) what the author really wrote before the anime. Plus, it's fun and expands my japanese vocabulary.^-^

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:43 pm**

Because I am a bibliophile.

So far, my total is around $800 and climbing.

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:56 am**

Its cheaper than anime and it helps to understand the animes better most times . . . like in Fruits Basket they are slightly different and you get to see a bigger picture ^^

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:05 am**

1. cheaper than anime.
2. manga are often better than the anime, in much the same way that books are often better than movies.
3. good drawing reference.
4. portable!

I think that's about it.

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:08 am**

yeah portable... ragnorok is the best magna I have EVER seen.

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:10 am**

Ah I like shiroi's reasons! Defintley most of the time better than the anime and prtable is always good! I can't draw very well, so I try to use it as a reference, but get frustrated . . .

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:26 pm**

I buy them for entertainment, but mostly the artwork. I hope to write mangas one day, and at least be a freelance artist. Like others have said, manga is portable, and something that is fun to read over and over again.

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:03 pm**

I buy Mangazine to support Anime Angels. (And because I rather enjoy the work of the mangaka that contribute to it. ^_^ )

PostPosted: **Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:28 am**

magna is cool...

PostPosted: **Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:52 am**

Well, I buy manga because I like 'em. Usually, it's also bbecasue an anime isn't (legaly) available yet, like Naruto. However, I also like the read the manga versions of stuff like Inu-Yasha to see how it compares to the anime (in the case of Inu-Yasha, I also get to imagine that the action didn't REALLY stop for ten minutes to allow for all that exposition :lol:

)

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:31 pm**

uc pseudonym wrote:In all honesty, I don't. Most of time I read it:
1) On the internet when that is legal
2) In stores
3) At friends'

Me too. I also read the random volumes that my library has. Much cheaper that way.

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:49 pm**

Anna Mae wrote:Me too. I also read the random volumes that my library has. Much cheaper that way.

My library has zero manga. Darn libraries, always behind the times. . .

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:51 pm**

Why buy manga? Because they usually won't give you books for free. (yes, I have scans on my comp, but I like the real, professionally printed stuff.)

PostPosted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:16 am**

Anna Mae wrote:Me too. I also read the random volumes that my library has. Much cheaper that way.

Mangafanatic wrote:My library has zero manga. Darn libraries, always behind the times. . .

Well, I don't know that you could say my library is with the times. They seem to pick COMPLETELY random issues. It's almost like they let a dog play with the list and then only bought the ones that they could still read afterward (and guessed on some of the ones they didn't know). :eyebrow:

But, yeah, that's my ranting on that. :mutter:

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:54 pm**

1) cheaper than anime
2) portable
3) wonderfully 'chunky' size and feel (think about it... manga are the perfect size)

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:30 pm**

1) It's not as time-consuming as anime. I'm a time-constrained person.
2) Cheaper than anime.
3) Reference for my own mangakaing efforts. It's hard to do that with anime.

^^

PostPosted: **Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:37 pm**

I buy it because I would be buying books (or anime) if I didn't and that would take way too much time to read (or watch), plus novels do not have bishies, or other pretty pictures that allow me to continue to delude myself into believing that I may someday be able to draw well ^_^.

That and I really just enjoy buying things.

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why do you buy magna?

why do you buy magna?